The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) of Nigeria was established over a decade ago with the aim of achieving universal health coverage within ten years of inception. Currently the population coverage is less than 10%. Beneficiaries are primarily the formal sector employees....
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/27680
Visceral larva migrans (VLM) is a worldwide neglected disease, prevalent among children from socio-economically disadvantaged populations in temperate and tropical regions. Infections may go undiagnosed as the required diagnostic tests; serological, molecular and/or imaging exami...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/28780
Dengue virus, a positive sense RNA virus, involve in spreading dengue infection worldwide, consists of four related but genetically different serotypes. The present study depicts the outbreak and prevalence of dengue infection in different parts of Pakistan from 1982 to 2013. In...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/13961
Aims: To determine the relationship between maternal hypothyroidism and preterm birth, neonatal low birth weight and neonatal thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) levels. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in a...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/27963
Aims: Conventional routine water analysis does not search for free-living amoebae (FLA) and Amoebae-Resisting Bacteria (ARB) in spite of their morbid impact on human health especially towards patients in health care services. In Egypt, very limited data are available in FLA, exis...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/28815
Aims: To determine the prevalence of Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) among clinically suspected patients in Taiz city, Taiz governorate, Yemen and its correlation with age, sex, site and lesions sites and number. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: This...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/28536
Background: Cordylobia anthropophaga, one of the known furuncular myiasis-associated fly, has long been limited to the Afro-tropical region. In Saudi Arabia, Southwest region, part of the Afro-tropical region, has been considered the sole endemic region of C. anthropophaga outsid...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/29086
Background: Injury is the leading causes of morbidity and mortality including disability worldwide. Emergency Injury Care (EIC) is provided to stabilize casualties with life-threatening injury in an emergency situation by an EIC trained person until refer. Emergency care immediat...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/27310
Imaralu John Osaigbovoh, Ijadunola Marcellina Yinyinade, Olaleye Atinuke Olukemi, Ani Franklin Inyang, Yusuf Adebola, Nwankpa Chima Godfrey & Fakoya Keji David·International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health·2016
Aims: To determine the prevalence of high risk sexual behavior and its relationship to the duration of coital sexual abstinence in husbands of postpartum women. Study Design: Cross sectional descriptive study. Place and Duration of Study: Ikenne Local Government Area, in Ogun St...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/28622
Aim: The aim of this study is to determine the reliability of fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of the breast as rapid cheap and quick diagnostic tool in an underdeveloped setting. Study Design: A descriptive retrospective study of breast FNAC results matched with the open b...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/29135